Michael Wilbon trashes D.C. as a sports town
ESPN the Magazine’s D.C. issue is super, super cool, and I think you should get your hands on it. That said, the large box inside the RGIII story featuring Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser talking...
View ArticleWilbon reverses himself, says Washington is a ‘pretty good’ sports town
As disappointed as I was to see Michael Wilbon trash D.C. as a sports town in the latest issue of ESPN the Magazine — calling it “terrible” and “last” — I was equally pleased to see him reverse course...
View ArticlePTI leads with Strasburg Shutdown talk
“He knows a storm of criticism is coming,” Bob Costas said of Mike Rizzo in the waning moments of Wednesday’s Game 3. “Some of it will come after this game, but more of it will come if they lose this …...
View ArticleWilbon: RGIII is best player in the NFL
Robert Griffin III’s latest spectacular game took the rhetoric to another level. ESPN 980′s Kevin Sheehan speculated Monday morning that RGIII would be a leading MVP candidate had the Redskins won on...
View ArticleStephen A. Smith calls Michael Wilbon a D.C. homer
Look, this is so incredibly stupid that you should really close this tab right this instant and go read a book. Do something useful with the few minutes of spare time you unexpectedly have in this...
View ArticleWilbon says Skins-Seahawks is NFC title game
Michael Wilbon may have unwittingly inspired the Washington Redskins this season. Or at least their fullback. “A lot of people counted us out, whether it be Michael Wilbon, whether it be Stephen A....
View ArticleESPN ‘Outside the Lines’ on RGIII and post-racial stars
ESPN’s most prominent attempt to grapple with Robert Griffin III and racial matters this season didn’t really turn out so well. But the network is taking another swing at the apple, another bite of the...
View ArticleWilbon thinks Bryce Harper is lying about how often he showers
This week’s hottest media scandal threatens to usher in a new era of sports journalism, in which every seemingly harmless fact must be ruthlessly fact-checked into sawdust. Believe nothing. Question...
View ArticleMorning Pixels: Michael Wilbon on the Nats
A lot of Washingtonians are losing their brain fluid over the Nats as the 2013 season dawns. For those who are no longer communicating with the real world, Michael Wilbon Trollbon has helpfully stepped...
View ArticleWilbon picks Caps to go to Stanley Cup finals
Michael Wilbon’s long-term skepticism about the Capitals is well-documented, from writing that “right now, Ovechkin would need a telescope to see Crosby,” to wondering if LeBron James was “the NBA...
View ArticleMichael Wilbon suggests that Alex Ovechkin is ‘pathetic’
“Michael Wilbon’s long-term skepticism about the Capitals is well-documented,” I wrote earlier this month, while detailing Wilbon’s repeated blasts at Alex Ovechkin for winning individual acclaim...
View ArticleWilbon: Goodell’s support for Redskins name is ‘gutless’
Current Washington Post sports columnists who have expressed an opinion on the Redskins team name have pretty uniformly been in favor of changing it. Now two former Post sports columnists have chimed...
View ArticleWilbon defends the Kastles’ win streak
Little did I know the passions that could be aroused during discussions of World Team Tennis win streaks. Like, first, some people complained that the lamestream media were belittling the team’s...
View ArticleJohn Feinstein on the Kastles’ win streak
I was kind of up in the air about posting John Feinstein’s thoughts on the Kastles and Mark Ein, because that story’s relationship to news is approximately the same as preseason football’s relationship...
View ArticleMichael Wilbon says Mike Rizzo and Davey Johnson should have known better
A day game, a new attempt at reaching rock bottom, a double-digit divisional deficit and, sure enough, the Nats were a topic on “Pardon the Interruption” again Wednesday evening. “Wilbon, I know you...
View ArticleMike Wilbon: Bryce Harper deserved to be hit
“You’re not gonna like this,” my boss said the other day, approaching my desk. I waited, staring at my shoes, running through the darkest possibilities in my head. Turns out the bad news wasn’t...
View ArticleTony Kornheiser, Mike Wilbon didn’t know they were in the Oval Office
Last month, Tony Kornheiser, Mike Wilbon and Tony Reali spent some time at the White House to have some lunch and meet with the President in the Oval Office. Thanks to Reali’s Twitter feed, we now have...
View ArticleMike Shanahan, the Super Bowl and PTI
This is the story of how a poorly worded tweet eventually led to a completely bogus segment on PTI. And it’s perhaps a cautionary tale for those of us who make our living in the world of 140-character...
View ArticleWhere’s the read option?
In September of last year, the Redskins dazzled their fans with an exciting offense that was unlike anything we’d seen in years, an offense that moved like lightning, was smoother than Sabra Hummus and...
View ArticleWilbon on RGIII and read option
Here was Michael Wilbon, talking about RGIII running the read option on Tony Kornheiser’s ESPN 980 radio show in September of 2012. “They’ve got to stop getting RGIII hit. The option? What, are we...
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